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Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Monday, October 10, 2011

"GOOGLE" is a verb!


Information is currency-personal information the New Gold
FACEBOOK networks connect peer to peer (allegedly by choice)
yet may expose users to ridicule if pix or facts "leak"out
Google searches seek and sponge  places,people,connections and compounded matrices
that enable a variety of devices to home in upon you as a "customer"
GOOGLE EARTH is censored-sensitive military installations clouded over for public viewing-
yet more sophisticated images exist for military purposes.
YOUTUBE is censored-yet you can access proscribed images by logging in
and your viewing patterns may be monitored.
A friend is suing GOOGLE for downloaded texts of authors without offering royalties
Possession of information creates a power explaining why
the heads of KGB and CIA end up as heads of Government
Knowledge is power that can be used to DO NO EVIL-
Google Flu Trends can estimate flu pandemics 
YOUTUBE has been used to spread the Arab Spring
though less successfully in Syria,where the Internet was shut down
as in China,where GOOGLE faces State-owned and controlled subsidies
Power is knowledge,and its accretion transcends historical and geographical borders
Yet,if GOOGLE did not do it-who would?Someone would step up as soaker of your life facts
You remain a data bank to be mined via every media possible.
Goodbye privacy-hello GOOGLE View!

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